How to create an ACTION

I was just told on another thread to create an ACTION to watermark 80 pictures in one step, however I must be doing something wrong:
This is step by step what I am doing, I must be doing something wrong because it is not working:
I create a PSD file with a transparent layer that says "DO NOT PRINT" , this is the layer that I will be adding to all the pics.
I open the ACTION window and select "CREATE A NEW ACTION" I put a name to it "WATERMARK", press OK and the record button starts.
I open ONE picture, I open the previously created watermark PSD file, I select the PSD file and drop it on top of the picture, I reposition a little bit so it is in the middle.
I press save on the picture and select the same name, I do not want to create a new file, just the same name is fine, I have saved all the original pictures somewhere else.
I close the picture and press stop. So I have an ACTION recorded
Ok now I go to FILE + AUTOMATE+ BATCH
I select the name of the action I just created "WATERMARK", now I CHOOSE a folder with many pictures inside, I want to add the watermark on all these pictures from this folder that I am selecting.
On destination I select NONE, as was indicated in my action I am saving under the same name on the same folder, I do not want to create another folder.
OK SO I PRESS OK ......
what the action is doing is...... it opens the pictures on the folder I selected, but inmediately after opening a new picture IT OPEN THE PICTURE WHERE I CREATED THE ACTION and it does all the steps I did on the same picture where I created the action, it doesnt do the action on the new pictures, it just keeps doing over and over again on the same picture where I created the action.
So at the end I have re-saved over and over again the same picture but it didnt even touch the pictures from the new folder, it just opened every picture but it didnt run any action on them, as indicated the ACTION run over and over again on the same picture where I created the action.
What am I doing wrong??
Thanks!

Actually I am sorry, this is not exactly was is happening.....
When I do the SAME STEPS in the previous post what it does is gives me an ERROR message and it says "MOVING FUNCTION IS NOT AVAILABLE" so I interpreted as if "for some reason" the ACTION function does not allow me to move layers inside a new picture.
Due to this what I did was I press the START NEW ACTION , open a new picture and from scratch create a new layer that says "DO NOT PRINT" ... when I do this and I select a new folder to run the action, what it does is it re-saves and re-saves over and over on the same picture where I created the original action, the action doesnt run on each new picture.
Sorry for all this messy explanation, I am as confused as all this long explanation!!!

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